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I've been listening all this month to the new album The great scape by SW and I like it a lot. It is an amazing band. But I feel they are too soft. The lyrics/rythms are very very soft. I like that, but not always. I mean, they could try something more aggressive. Anyway, this band is wonderful and let's hope they find a new good drummer.

The only remarkable songs I found in TGE are "Wiseman" and "Move On Through": Right now after a few more listen the title track sounds just boring. And I don't think they are a purely exclusive prog metal band, more like symphonic proggresive; that's why we are still not finding that thing that makes our head explode

you broke the quoatation page! blood shall come upon you!

adrian9 wrote:you broke the quoatation page! blood shall come upon you!

We're fresh out of blood. Will buffalo sauce suffice?

I got Elysium today.

JezzeZ wrote:I got Elysium today.

Opinions? Reviews?

ggonza43 wrote:

JezzeZ wrote:I got Elysium today.

Opinions? Reviews?

Well the songs are just awesome, the package is nice (ooh shiny ), and the demo versions are included

My score is 9,5.

A shiny package , I'm dying to have mine

It's got nice colorful hologram decorations and five hologram photocards of Strato :bounce2:

And the T-Shirt with the "Elysium - I heard it first" message ?

My current haul for this year:

Stratovarius
- Elysium

Dark Moor
Entire discography, including:
1 - Shadowland (1999)
2 - The Hall of the Olden Dreams (2000)
3 - The Fall of Melnibone (2001)
4 - The Gates of Oblivion (2002)
5 - From Hell (EP Limited Edition) (2003)
6 - Between Light And Darkness (2003)
7 - Dark Moor (2003)
8 - Beyond the Sea (2005)
9 - Tarot (2007)
10 - Autumnal (2009)
11 - Ancestral Romance (2010)

Power Quest
Entire discography, including:
1 - Wings of Forever (2002)
2 - Neverworld (2003)
3 - Magic Never Dies (2005)
4 - Master of Illusion (2008)

Fyi, I used BitTorrent for everything {*(^.^)*}

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Kecos wrote:Dark Moor is pretty awesome

My copy of Elysium arrived on Thursday, and it's awesome!

Agreed ! Listening to "Autumnal" right now ! It sounds AMAZING ! My favorite album, however, is "Tarot".

Only thing that sucks, is that I had to download all the artwork by myself. And some of them I couldn't even find artwork . Oh well. Awesome power metal bands and albums for the win!!!!

Kecos wrote:Dark Moor is pretty awesome

My copy of Elysium arrived on Thursday, and it's awesome!

awesome!!

AAAAAAAAAA wrote:

Kecos wrote:Dark Moor is pretty awesome

My copy of Elysium arrived on Thursday, and it's awesome!

awesome!!

Is that all you have to say? We could talk more...

I just rediscovered Edguy and purchased the rest of their discography I didn't yet own:

Edguy - Kingdom of Madness
Edguy - Theater of Salvation
Edguy - The Savage Poetry
Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
Gamma Ray - To The Metal!
Tarot - Gravity of Light
Stratovarius - Elysium CD+7" ltd. edition

Max Demian wrote:

AAAAAAAAAA wrote:

Kecos wrote:Dark Moor is pretty awesome

My copy of Elysium arrived on Thursday, and it's awesome!

awesome!!

Is that all you have to say? We could talk more...

I would never talk with a dick-head*.

*see his avatar

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Kecos wrote:

AAAAAAAAAA wrote:

Kecos wrote:Dark Moor is pretty awesome

My copy of Elysium arrived on Thursday, and it's awesome!

awesome!!

yeah..

So....

Dja hear the one about the guy in the bar who ordered a manhattan?

He found a piece of parsley floating in it and asked the bartender "what's this"? To which he replied- "that's central park!!".

Thoughts?

Amusing.

I don't know what a "Manhattan" is

AGAG wrote:I don't know what a "Manhattan" is

A guy who leaves his sombrero too long under the sun.

Man-hat-tan?

Ahh, to hell with you all. :pissed3:

Finally, I have bought some CDs...

1) OSI-Blood - great, great,great one... I love Moore One minus: it's too short (47 minutes) My favorite track: Blood
2) Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts - I had it earlier only in mp3s. Very good CD with long tracks(I like it), very powerful, i like synth work on it. What a pity the concert in Poland was cancelled
3)Mullmuzzler - "Keep it to yourself" - LaBrie side project, it's more power than prog, first track (His Power) reminds me more Sonata Arctica, than Dream Theater.
4)Seven The Hardway - s/t - Tony McAlpine&Virgil Donati new band. Some good track and great Donati work here, very few synth, a lot of guitars, harshy vocals make me sometimes hard to listen, and I feel a disonance between proggy verses and radio-like choruses (like SX or last DT CDs)
5)King Crimson - Lizard - I haven't listened to it more than once, so I can't say at this moment anything
6)Muse-Resistance - I break from metal - not as good as Absolution, but worth buying

I haven't bought Elysium yet, but I will certainly do it in few days!

Outside rock/metal I recomend Histoire du Soldat of Igor Strawinsky. Great work. I was shocked when I read that was written in 1918.

And a question. There is a Steve Lukather solo concert in few weeks. Is it worth going? Someone has been?

Shadow Gallery and King Crimson! Excellent.

Back from page 2.

Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

Never got around to actually purchasing these. Also preordered:

Avantasia - The Flying Opera- Around the World in 20 Days - Live 2DVD+2CD

My first CDs in several years:

Slayer - South of Heaven
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

and

Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk :/

Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn
Deep Purple - Abandon

In process of completing my DP studio album -collection.

I just stole the new Backstreet Boys record from my local flea-market.

It was worth it

I lost my virginity to this song in 3rd grade in the bathroom of a library on friday the 13th during a waning crescent under a frozen twilight.

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